1. Unknown - “Out of sight, out of mind.”

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2. Mark Twain - “I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.”

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3. Frederick W. Thomas - “'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”

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4. Helen Rowland - “Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.”

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5. Nicholas Rowe - “The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?”

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6. Charles Reade - “The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.”

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7. Alexander Pope - “Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”

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8. Alexander Pope - “Is not absence death to those who love?”

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9. Philippe Nericault - “Those not present are always in the wrong. Les absents ont toujours tort.”

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10. Comte de Mirabeau - “Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.”

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11. Walter Savage Landor - “Absence and death are the same — only that in death there is no suffering.”

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12. Charles Lamb - “For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.”

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13. Charles Lamb - “Presents, I often say, endear absents.”

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14. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - “Be generous with kindly words,especially about those who are absent.”

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15. Thomas Fuller - “Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

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16. Benjamin Franklin - “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuses.”

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17. William Cowper - “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

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18. Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette - “It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.”

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19. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - “Absence — that common cure of love.”

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20. Albert Camus - “I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.”

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21. Comte de Bussy-Rabutin - “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”

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22. Ashleigh Brilliant - “Sometimes I need what only you can provide — your absence.”

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23. Elizabeth Bowen - “Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”

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24. Thomas Haynes Bayly - “Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!”

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25. Elizabeth Ashley - “Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.”

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